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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Evaluating Individual and Census Tract Characteristics on Birth Outcomes--a Multi-level Approach
4062.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Evaluating Individual and Census Tract Characteristics on Birth Outcomes--a Multi-level Approach
Learning Objectives: To learn the use of multi-level analysis of contextual and individual characteristic which impact birth outcomes.
Organizer(s):Janet T. Eyster, PhD
Presider(s):Janet T. Eyster, PhD
8:30 AMIntroductory comments
Michael D. Kogan, PhD
8:40 AMSociodemographic domains of deprivation and preterm birth
Lynne C. Messer, PhD, Lisa C. Vinikoor, MSPH, Jay S. Kaufman, PhD, Barbara A. Laraia, PhD, MPH, RD
9:00 AMMaternal age-related patterns of preterm delivery - influence of neighborhod deprivation, ethnicity and smoking
Janet T. Eyster, PhD, Claudia Holzman, DVM, MPH, PhD, Veronika Skorokhod, MS
9:20 AMModeling black-white preterm birth disparity as an area-level outcome and an individual-level exposure
Lynne C. Messer, PhD, Jay Kaufman, PhD, Barbara A. Laraia, PhD, MPH, RD, Lisa C. Vinikoor
9:40 AMDoes it matter how SGA is defined when assessing its association with individual and neighborhood level characteristics?
Jennifer F. Culhane, PhD, MPH, Iliana Kohler, Irma T. Elo, MPA, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Statistics
Endorsed by:Epidemiology; Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA